People
Marie Hoppe
Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Marie Hoppe is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Iowa. Her area of interest is the Amana Colonies.
Danielle Hoskins
Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Danielle Hoskins is a visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on modern American history, including American women in politics and social movements, and issues of gender, citizenship, and public action in 20th century America.
Ashley Howard
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Ashley Howard joined the University of Iowa faculty in 2019 coming from Loyola University, New Orleans. Her research interests include African Americans in the Midwest; the intersection between race, class, and gender; and the global history of racial violence.
Michael Hugunin
Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Michael Hugunin is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa. His area of interest is Medieval History.
John Jepsen
Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
John W. Jepsen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Iowa, with research interests in Native American, energy, and public policy history.
Kathleen Kamerick
Title/Position
Lecturer (Retired)
Kathleen Kamerick is a retired lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. Her principal interest is gender and the religious culture of northern Europe in the late Middle Ages.
Colleen Kelley
Title/Position
Assistant Director, CLAS Advising Network
Doctoral Candidate
Colleen Kelley serves as the departmental advisor for all history students who have earned at least 30 semester hours.
Linda K. Kerber
Title/Position
Professor Emerita
May Brodbeck Professor in Liberal Arts & Sciences, Professor of History
Lecturer - College of Law
Linda K. Kerber is May Brodbeck Professor in Liberal Arts & Sciences. She is also lecturer emerita in the College of Law.
Amanda Kozar
Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Amanda Kozar is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa.
Maddison Kuncl
Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Maddison Kuncl is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa. Her area of interest is 20th century American history with a focus on women's history.
Garrett Lewis
Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Garrett T. Lewis is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. His research broadly focuses on the social and cultural histories of the New England colonies, as well as the colony of New France.
Jinghan Liu
Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Jinghan Liu is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa. Her primary research interests are legal history and social history of modern China.
Ashley Maempa
Title/Position
Doctoral Student
John McKerley
Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor
John McKerley is a historian of labor and civil and human rights whose work focuses on oral history methods.
Audrey Messinger
Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Audrey Messinger is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa. Her primary research interests are youth history and white nationalism in the United States in the early 20th century.
Tom Arne Midtrød
Title/Position
Director of Graduate Studies, History Department
Associate Professor
Tom Arne Midtrød joined the Department of History in the Fall 2009. His research focuses on North American Indians from first contact with Europeans through the era of the American Revolution.
Michael E. Moore
Title/Position
Associate Professor Emeritus
Michael Edward Moore is an associate professor emeritus in the History Department at the University of Iowa. He was a member of the department's Medieval and European contingent.
Rosemary Moore
Title/Position
Distinguished Associate Professor of Instruction
Rosemary Moore joined the History Department in 2003. She holds a joint appointment with the Classics Department. Her major research interests focus on the social dynamics between various ranks of the Roman military, and the military and Roman society as a whole.
Lina-Maria Murillo
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo is an Assistant Professor in History and Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. She earned a PhD in Borderlands History at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in 2016. Her research interests include borderlands, women's health and reproductive justice, Latina/o/x studies, and social justice movements.
Noah Neiber
Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Noah Neiber is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa.
Scott Neill
Title/Position
Doctoral Student
Scott Neill is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Iowa. His area of interest includes legal history of England/colonies with a focus on North American borderlands, and North American legal and diplomatic history.
Alyssa Park
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Honors Director, History
Alyssa Park is a historian of modern Korea. Her research interests include borderlands, transnational migration, and empire in East Asia, including Russia.
Jaroslaw Pelenski (1929-2022)
Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Jaroslaw Pelenski was a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. He retired from the university in 1998.
Caleb Pennington
Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Caleb Pennington is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Iowa. His fields of interest are American environmental history, legal history, American public policy, and African American history.
R. Tyler Priest
Title/Position
Associate Professor of History and Geography
Tyler Priest has a joint appointment in the Departments of History, where he is an Associate Professor, and Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, where he teaches a course on U.S. Energy Policy and assists in overseeing the Environmental Policy and Planning program. His primary research interests are in the history of oil, energy, energy policy, globalization, and business, as well as public history. 20th Century U.S. history
Energy and Environmental History
Energy Policy
History of Business and Technology
Public History
Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Malcolm Rohrbough, professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Iowa, is an authority on the American West, the days of the California gold rush, and the American frontier. He retired from teaching at the university in the spring of 2008.
Robert Rouphail
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Dr. Rouphail is a historian of modern Africa and the Indian Ocean and is broadly interested in histories of the environment, empire, and decolonization in the Afro-Asian World.
David Schoenbaum
Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
David Schoenbaum is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. He retired from teaching at the university in the spring of 2008.
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